The 11th Ministerial Conference (“MC’11”) was flagged off on 10 December, 2017 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. MC’11 has been held at a time when the Trade Facilitation Agreement has entered into force mandating (for the first time ever) a revision of the WTO Rule Book, the WTO Members have eliminated agricultural expo...

The High Court of Bombay in [Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) P Ltd v. UOI, 2016 (44) S.T.R 161 (Bom.)] examined whether the transaction undertaken by the petitioners would be exigible to service tax or to VAT where the petitioners were involved in different transactions though both urged that their transaction was a ser...

Five Judges Bench of the Delhi High Court has allowed a composite suit for infringement of registered design and passing-off. It noted that if there is a common question of law and facts, the joinder of causes of action can take place under Order II Rule 3 of the CPC to avoid multiplicity
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The Supreme Court has held that proprietor of trademark cannot enjoy monopoly over entire class of goods particularly when he is not using said trademark in respect of certain goods falling under same class.

The Apex Court in this regard set aside the High Court and IPAB orders, thus restoring Registrar’s order allow...

Google has on 24th of July brought an action before the US District Court (Northern District of California-San Jose Division) to prevent enforcement of the Canadian Supreme Court Order that prohibits Google from publishing within the US, search result information about the contents of the internet.

Observing that the marks FERANTA and INTAS’ FERINTAS are sufficiently distinguishable and does not satisfy Section 29(2)(b) of the Trade Marks Act, a Single Judge of the Bombay High Court has refused to grant an interim injunction in favour of the Plaintiffs in a trademark infringement and passing off suit.

Taking note of the fact that plaintiff had acquired a distinctive reputation and goodwill of its own under the trade names “ASIAN HAUS” and “SUSHI HAUS” for its food delivery outlets, Delhi High Court has restrained the defendants by an interim injunction from using the name “HAUS” for latter’s food de...

Delhi High Court has set aside the ‘deemed to be withdrawn’ status of a patent application and restored the Indian National Phase application. The issue involved incorrect mention of the number of the patent application in Form 18 as well as in its covering letter, and absence of communication from the department seeking correction...

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court on 12 April 2017 has set aside the decision of the Single Judge Bench wherein the latter had vacated the earlier ex-parte interim injunction granted in favour of the Plaintiffs in a designs infringement case.

The Single Judge Bench had vacated the interim order on the basis of un...

The plaintiff, a manufacturer of plastic insulated products claimed infringement of the registered design of its water bottle ‘PURO’ with a two-tone colour scheme, flip top and unique surface pattern and that the ‘Kudoz’ bottles sold by the defendant would mislead the public into thinking they were products of the pla...